(two part match report, general and silhouettes in part 1, field target in part 2)
"A picture is worth a thousand words." Since I didn't personally attend this one, and they sent me a big pile of photos....I'm (mostly) going with that for this match report.
Arizona is a land of extremes. Tom owns a beautiful little slice of the Gila River bottom in Duncan Arizona. The north end of his property is bone dry desert scrub, the south end, the river bottom, and off further to the north, the high country where most of Arizona's precipitation falls. Dan L took this awesome photo showing some of those extremes. Far off to the north the rain can be seen falling in the mountains, much nearer is that bone dry desert, and behind Dan in the photo, is the Gila River bottom where we have these matches.
With it only being March, winter still has it's hold on even the river bottom, but some of the hardier plants are starting to poke out.
The earliest arrivals on Thursday and Friday got the course all set.....
Typical for these matches, Friday evening was the silhouette match. Simple rules, 40 points possible. Ram, turkey, pig, chicken, chicken at four distances, usually 40, 50, 60, 70 yards. 1 shot per animal, miss = 0 points, knock it off the stand = 1 point. Shoot through twice. Use your field target position, and field target gun. They told me they ran out of daylight and had to turn some headlights on for the last round of shooters. (three can shoot in each "heat" and targets are color coded for each shooter of that heat-yellow, blue, and orange).
Silhouette scores....
Rex J 39
Marcy H 35
Steve Q 30
Franz D 28
Larry F 25
Andrew S 23
Tom H 17
Weston S 14
Dan L DNF
Chance H DNF
"A picture is worth a thousand words." Since I didn't personally attend this one, and they sent me a big pile of photos....I'm (mostly) going with that for this match report.
Arizona is a land of extremes. Tom owns a beautiful little slice of the Gila River bottom in Duncan Arizona. The north end of his property is bone dry desert scrub, the south end, the river bottom, and off further to the north, the high country where most of Arizona's precipitation falls. Dan L took this awesome photo showing some of those extremes. Far off to the north the rain can be seen falling in the mountains, much nearer is that bone dry desert, and behind Dan in the photo, is the Gila River bottom where we have these matches.
With it only being March, winter still has it's hold on even the river bottom, but some of the hardier plants are starting to poke out.
The earliest arrivals on Thursday and Friday got the course all set.....
Typical for these matches, Friday evening was the silhouette match. Simple rules, 40 points possible. Ram, turkey, pig, chicken, chicken at four distances, usually 40, 50, 60, 70 yards. 1 shot per animal, miss = 0 points, knock it off the stand = 1 point. Shoot through twice. Use your field target position, and field target gun. They told me they ran out of daylight and had to turn some headlights on for the last round of shooters. (three can shoot in each "heat" and targets are color coded for each shooter of that heat-yellow, blue, and orange).
Silhouette scores....
Rex J 39
Marcy H 35
Steve Q 30
Franz D 28
Larry F 25
Andrew S 23
Tom H 17
Weston S 14
Dan L DNF
Chance H DNF
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) at night and some breeze (lol) to deal with but I think we all had a great time like usual.
. The difference between 36.92 and 37.05 is likely due to how I rounded. 